Washington Irving Quote
Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? — No — no, 'tis your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.
Book III, ch. 2 This derives from a statement by William Shakespeare in the play Julius Caesar where Caesar declares: - Knickerbocker's History of New York (1809)
